AD Architectural Digest India
PRESENTING KUNAAL MANIAR'S MONUMENT TO LOVE, CRAFTED IN STONE AND WOOD.
Love doesn't always announce itself with a bold colour. Sometimes, it speaks in the shadows, in the soft matte black of granite, in the way two waves lean toward each other as if remembering an ancient, unspoken pact.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
AT NOMAD ABU DHABI, STUDIO RENN SHOWCASES A CONTEMPORARY INDIAN AESTHETIC ROOTED IN ANCIENT JEWELLERY TRADITIONS.
Studio Renn, a Mumbai-based jewellery design practice, has long argued that jewellery is not merely material but a way of thinking about form, intention and meaning.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
AN EXHIBITION AT HAMPI ART LABS DIVES INTO THE ART, POLITICS AND EMOTIONAL HISTORY OF INDIGO.
Just inside the entrance to the gallery at Hampi Art Labs (HAL), founded by Sangita Jindal, a terracotta vat occupies pride of place these days.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
IN THE SOUL GARDEN, DESIGNER VIKRAM GOYAL AND ARTIST SISSEL TOLAAS RECREATE THE SIGHTS AND SMELLS OF AN ANIMAL WONDERLAND.
Five protagonists from the Panchatantra and other ancient animal fables came alive in The Soul Garden, an installation by designer Vikram Goyal in collaboration with artist Sissel Tolaas, presented by The Future Perfect at Design Miami.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
CHANDELIER RESTORER FOR THE LOUVRE AND THE PALACE OF VERSAILLES, RÉGIS MATHIEU OF MATHIEU LUSTRERIE TALKS ABOUT HIS CRAFT.
For Régis Mathieu, the second-generation owner at the helm of the French chandelier maker Mathieu Lustrerie, restoration is not just a dialogue with the past, but also a dialogue with future conservators and designers.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
KELLY
Wearstler is in a state of flow.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
IN OUR NEW BOOK, AD AT HOME, GLOBAL EDITORIAL DIRECTOR AMY ASTLEY LEADS A HIGHLY PERSONAL TOUR, CELEBRATING SOME OF THE MOST INNOVATIVE CREATIVES OF OUR TIME.
Fascinating people at home.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
SHRUTI JALAN
ON A QUIET, LEAFY BREACH CANDY HILLOCK IN MUMBAI, THE AD100 ARCHITECT AND DESIGNER LIVES WITH HER HUSBAND AND SON AMONG WEDGWOOD BLUE WALLS, CONSIDERED LAYERS OF VINTAGE FURNITURE AND MODERN ART IN A CLASSIC ART DECO BUILDING.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
A HOME IN THE SCENIC NANDI HILLS BECKONS US
ARCHITECTS SUNITHA KONDUR AND BIJOY RAMACHANDRAN OF HUNDREDHANDS BUILD A HOME FOR THEIR CLIENTS ETCHED INTO THE KNOTTY TOPOGRAPHY, OPEN ΤΟ THE BREATHTAKING VIEWS OF THE LANDSCAPE AROUND.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
PYRITE ANTIQUE BRONZE, REFINED JOINERY— THE GEM CABINET BY DEMURO DAS DRAWS ITS BEAUTY FROM GEOLOGY AND BRINGS IT INTO THE LIVING ROOM.
At first glance, the Gem Cabinet could be mistaken for an abstract artwork—its surface an expanse of glimmering silver, like aerial views of a sci-fi set.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
DESIGNER MARIA GRAZIA CHIURI AND HER DAUGHTER, RACHELE REGINI, BREATHE NEW LIFE INTO ROME'S LEGENDARY TEATRO DELLA COMETA.
The lights go down, the red velvet curtains open and the show begins.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
WARLI ARTIST JIVYA SOMA MASHE'S EXCEPTIONAL CAREER IS THE FOCUS OF A NEW BOOK BY CURATOR HERVÉ PERDRIOLLE.
For centuries, women of the Warli community in Maharashtra's Thane district have marked occasions like weddings, harvests festivals and so on with white ritualistic drawings, made with a paste of rice powder and water on the terracotta-hued walls of their huts made of mud and cow dung. And then, in the 1970s, came Jivya Soma Mashe, a rule breaker for many reasons.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
SOUTH ASIAN ARTISTS TO WATCH OUT FOR
From Art Basel to the Venice Biennale, AD spotlights five noteworthy artists at the centre of the scene.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
KHWABGAH, A HOME SET ON A RIDGE IN THE ANCIENT ARAVALLI HILLS, IS WHERE MOTHER-DAUGHTER DUO
SUNITA AND KOHELIKA KOHLI RETREAT TO–AWAY FROM THE MADDING
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
PARISIAN DEPARTMENT STORE GALERIES LAFAYETTE UNVEILS A SWEEPING 90,000-SQUARE-FOOT STORE IN MUMBAI'S FORT AREA.
On the atrium floor of the glittering new Galeries Lafayette in Mumbai, a lotus-motif parchinkari inlay anchors the space as your gaze rises to the cupola overhead.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
SPANISH ARTIST IGNASI MONREAL BUILDS A GOLD-LEAFED HOME FOR HIMSELF: A SPACE FOR THE MIND, NOT FOR DAILY LIFE.
As the artist Ignasi Monreal gazes at the sky and the rooftops of Madrid from the golden dome that is his home, he shares some words of warning: \"Nothing here is practical or comfortable.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
ON THE BIRTH CENTENARY OF KRISHEN KHANNA, A DEFINING ARTIST OF INDIAN MODERNISM, HIS GRANDDAUGHTER, KAJOLI KHANNA, WRITES A PERSONAL ESSAY.
Long before the world recognised him as Krishen Khanna—the last Progressive and one of the defining voices of Indian modernism—he was a young man behind a banker's desk: restless, curious and already thinking in colour.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
IN CAIRO, DESIGNER ALIA EL TANANI CRAFTS A MODERN-DAY PALACE BRIMMING WITH EXQUISITE ART,
design and craft inspired by the cultural exchange along the historic Silk Route.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
MEET THE WINNERS OF THE SEVENTH EDITION OF THE ADXJSW PRIZE FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFTSMANSHIP: JAYA JAITLY, SANTOSHI HANDICRAFTS AND THE VERNACULAR MODERN.
In an elegant award ceremony held at the Experimental Theatre of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai, the ADxJSW Prize for Contemporary Craftsmanship felicitated this year's winners.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
The Historian
In the first issue of this year, we travel to Patiala and zoom into its frescoes, miniature paintings and intricate artworks on towering walls.
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January - February 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
VIKAS DILAWARI THE RESTORER OF BOMBAY
Flora Fountain, Amarchand Mansion, Army & Navy Building, Lal Chimney complex, Hira Baug, corporation hall of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) headquarters, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Rajabai Clock Tower, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus and immeasurably more-Vikas Dilawari has spent a lifetime repairing and restoring Mumbai's heritage buildings.
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January - February 2026
Design Essentia Magazine
Bridge House:
A Cocoon Woven from Land, Water & Grass.
2 min |
November - December 2025
Design Essentia Magazine
The ‘Niraba’ collection - a tribute to Odisha’s artisans by This and That Studio
Niraba means 'silent strength' in Odia. Not the absence of sound, but the presence of stillness.
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November - December 2025
Design Essentia Magazine
Corridor House 2.0 : Framing Light, Shaping Solitude
Corridor House 2.0 by i2a Architects is a private residence located in Thrissur, Kerala, India that transforms the enclosure into an instrument of light, using a linear corridor, perforated walls, & inward facing courtyards to balance privacy, openness, and everyday living.
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November - December 2025
Design Essentia Magazine
Seeta Damodaram Residence: Where Craft, Calm, and Music Converge
Seeta Damodaram Residence is a soulful Jaipur home designed by Studio Timescape that translates rhythm and restraint into architecture, using natural materials, craft, and light to create a calm, deeply personal retreat shaped by music and silence.
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November - December 2025
Design Essentia Magazine
Gully Labs: An Urban Ode to Indian Street Life
Gully Labs in New Delhi, India is a flagship retail space designed by Delhi-based The Melange Studio that transforms Indian street culture into an immersive spatial narrative, blending local materials, handcrafted details, and community-driven spaces to celebrate sneakers, craft, and contemporary cultural identity.
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November - December 2025
Design Essentia Magazine
Entering the Age of Emotional Design
For decades, design has been measured by two yardsticks: function and form. Does it work? Does it look good? Today, another measure is gaining equal importance: how does it make us feel? We are entering the age of emotional design.
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November - December 2025
Design Essentia Magazine
Whimsical Wes : Living Inside a Cinematic Dream
Whimsical Wes is a 5400 sq.ft. cinematic and character rich residence designed by Kirti Dodeja in Siolim, Goa, India that blends Wes Anderson inspired symmetry with Art Nouveau elegance, using pastel palettes, bold detailing, and curated artefacts to create a deeply personal and playful home.
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November - December 2025
Design Essentia Magazine
Rooh A House Shaped by Water and Stillness
Rooh is a serene holiday home designed by Thomas Parambil Architects in Malpe, Karnataka, India that embraces it's rare location between the sea and the river through thoughtful orientation, open planning and a restrained material palette, creating a calm retreat designed for togetherness, reflection, and a deep connection with nature.
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November - December 2025
Design Essentia Magazine
In Celebration of a Visionary Architect Frank Gehry
The passing of Frank Gehry marks the end of an era in contemporary architecture.
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